Editorial Methodology
How CIN reports on cannabis capital markets.
Cannabis Investor News is an editorial publication covering the global cannabis capital markets — 494 listed operators, 10 regions, 16 exchanges. Every brief, coverage page, and terminal signal is built on primary-source reporting and public regulatory disclosures. This page describes how that reporting is produced.
What CIN does not publish: the individual sources, vendors, and datasets that make up the underlying research stack. That combination is proprietary. Where a specific claim in a brief or coverage page depends on a public filing, government disclosure, or regulator publication, CIN links directly to the primary source on the page that carries the claim.
Source classes
CIN reporting draws on six categories of primary-source material. Specific providers, vendors, and datasets within each class are proprietary and are not published.
Regulatory & Financial Filings
Corporate disclosures filed with securities regulators in every jurisdiction where CIN-covered issuers list — quarterly and annual financials, insider transactions, material change reports, prospectuses, and equivalent filings across all covered exchanges. Refreshed on regulator publish cadence.
Government & Multilateral Statistics
Economic, health, trade, and demographic data from national statistical agencies and multilateral bodies that provides context for cannabis-legal markets outside the United States. Covers 10 regions and the pure-play cannabis countries. Refreshed on publisher cadence, typically monthly to annual.
Cannabis Regulators
National and sub-national cannabis regulatory bodies whose published data covers licensing, imports, exports, cultivation, tax collections, retail sales, and pricing. Every operating US state cannabis program is tracked, plus the equivalent regulators in Canada, the EU pure-plays, Australia, LatAm, Africa, and Israel.
Trade & Customs
Bilateral trade statistics for hemp-adjacent HS codes and cross-border cannabis flows, drawn from official customs and trade databases. Used to trace supply corridors and export dependencies.
Public Pricing Benchmarks
Officially published wholesale and retail price series from crown agencies, state regulators, and government statistical bodies. Used as pricing baselines in wholesale and retail narratives — never used as forecast inputs.
Market Data & Price History
End-of-day and delayed intraday equity price data for every listed operator in the coverage universe, plus the benchmark rates (interest, volatility, currency indices) that provide macro context. Refreshed daily.
Editorial method
How claims move from primary sources to a published brief.
Primary source first
Every claim in a CIN brief traces back to a primary source — a filing, a regulator publication, or an official statistical release. Trade press is cited for context but never used as the sole basis for a claim of fact.
Fixed refresh cadence
The coverage universe refreshes on a documented, published cadence rather than ad-hoc. Tier A: weekly. Tier B: twice monthly. Tier C: monthly. Daily briefs and the regulatory event feed refresh every business day. Podcast episodes publish weekdays. Weekend cadence is deliberately quiet.
No paid placement, no pay-for-coverage
CIN does not accept payment in exchange for coverage, favorable framing, ticker inclusion, brief mentions, or omission of adverse facts. Distressed issuers are labelled distressed. Corrections are labelled corrections.
Written on the record
CIN Voice is written by identified editorial staff working from primary sources. AI is used for drafting assistance, translation, and summarization; every published brief is reviewed by a human editor before publication.
Standards & attribution
How CIN handles corrections, credit to primary sources within briefs, and inclusion in the coverage universe.
Corrections policy
Substantive corrections are labelled at the top of the affected page with the original wording preserved below the correction line. Non-substantive edits (typography, formatting) are made silently. Requests for correction: media@cannabisinvestornews.co.
Attribution within briefs
Where a specific number, quote, or filing detail appears in a brief or coverage page, CIN links to the primary source on that page. Readers can verify any specific claim against its underlying disclosure.
Coverage universe
494 listed cannabis operators across 10 regions and 16 exchanges. The universe is curated, not indiscriminate — inclusion requires either an operating cannabis-related business or a material cannabis-related asset. Removed tickers stay on file with a documented removal date.